Obamagate redefined opposition to Islamic terrorism as a national security threat.
The first public revelation that the White House was spying on high level members of the political opposition came in 2015. Members of Congress had been eavesdropped on as part of an operation to sabotage Prime Minister Netanyahu’s campaign against the Iran Deal. The Israeli leader and his entire country had earlier been targeted by a massive spy campaign to stop Israel from taking out Iran’s nukes.
But the new wave of surveillance was no longer just against a potential Israeli attack on Iran, but was part of a political campaign to win the domestic argument to aid Iran and legalize its nuclear program.
The Wall Street Journal reported that by 2013, surveillance of Netanyahu was focused on protecting the Iran nuclear negotiations. Netanyahu’s invitation to address Congress caught the White House by surprise and the surveillance was not only directed at Israelis or even pro-Israel Americans, but members of Congress who were skeptical that the Islamic terror regime would ever scuttle its nukes.
The Iran Deal ushered in a surveillance shift from monitoring the former allies that Obama wanted to toss overboard, to monitoring Americans who were friendly to those governments, and then leading members of the political opposition, and finally members of an incoming administration. Obama and his associates had redefined national security as the pursuit of his dangerous foreign policy, and the new national security threats were administration critics who were surveilled in order to entrap them.
Surveillance had morphed from spying on Obama’s political opponents to conspiring to lock them up.
General Flynn had been a key opponent of the Iran policy, as detailed by Lee Smith in How Russiagate Began With Obama’s Iran Deal Domestic Spying Campaign. Flynn’s arrival not only threatened the Iran Deal, but the politicized intelligence agencies that had been covering for Iran even during the Bush days. Beyond protecting the Iran Deal and Obama’s legacy, the fake intelligence machine was defending itself.
Flynn had already been forced out once. His return wasn’t supposed to happen and was seen as a threat.
Oubai Shahbandar, who had worked for the DIA and served on the ground in Iraq as a strategic analyst, noted that Flynn had warned Obama that Al-Qaeda in Iraq would make a comeback, “Flynn’s prophetic warnings would play out exactly as he’d warned shortly after he was fired.”
It was bad enough that Obama’s foreign policy vets and intelligence cronies had failed. The prospect of having Flynn return to take advantage of their mistakes and wreck their credibility was unthinkable.
The pretext for taking down Flynn was generated when he called Ambassador Kislyak about an anti-Israel resolution coming up at the UN. The Obama administration had played a key role in generating these shadow resolutions by other countries to pressure Israel. The Jewish State, along with the UAE, the Saudis, and Egypt, and any Trump associates friendly to them, had become targets in a shadow war meant to keep Obama’s foreign policy in place even under the incoming Trump administration.
Obamagate was waged to protect a foreign policy based around Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
That was why Walid Phares, a Trump adviser, was also investigated by the FBI and the Mueller team for his friendliness to President Sisi’s anti-Islamist government in Egypt. Flynn and Phares were investigated because they posed a threat to Obama’s pro-Islamist foreign policy. That was Susan Rice’s pretext for unmasking the names of Trump officials meeting with the crown prince of the United Arab Emirates.
The Obama administration had not only redefined support for Islamic terror states as being in our country’s national interest, but it also redefined opposition to Islamic terror as a national security threat.
Flynn and Phares were targeted because they were critics of the Iran Deal and the Brotherhood.
After Obama and his cronies had dismantled counterterrorism and crippled the military, they took national security into an inverted Orwellian world in which terrorism was national security, and national security was terrorism, and members of the incoming Trump administration were the greatest national security threat because they opposed Obama’s foreign policy of aiding Islamic terrorists.
Flynn and Phares, in their own ways, struck at the twin Islamist hearts of that foreign policy.
The Arab Spring and the Brotherhood’s ascendancy had been crucial to Obama’s vision of a new Middle East. Obama had been pushing regime change in Egypt as early as his 2002 Daley Plaza speech, in which he invoked regime change for Egypt and Saudi Arabia, but not, of course, for Iran. The Brotherhood’s collapse across the region had been personally humiliating for Obama and his people hadn’t given up their dreams of a Muslim Brotherhood Reconquista in Egypt. Phares was a threat to those dreams.
Iran was Obama’s last shot at his grand strategy to realign America foreign policy toward Islamist terror states. This was not just one agreement, but a desperate attempt to turn back the clock to the Cairo Speech, before ISIS, the counter-revolutions in Egypt and Tunisia, and the growing tilt of the Saudis and the UAE toward Israel and against the Islamists and Iran. Obama’s entire foreign policy was on the line.
Having Flynn on duty risked sabotaging what Obama saw as his only surviving foreign policy success. And when Flynn directly intervened to stop an Obama shadow UN resolution aimed at Israel, his cronies in the intelligence community struck back hard, taking revenge over Flynn’s effort to protect Israel, and marking their territory from Egypt to Iran, while seeking to hijack the incoming Trump administration.
The peaceful transition that traditionally separated the American political system from those of failed states was coming apart as the Obama administration, no longer content with covert eavesdropping or media leaks, actively went to war over foreign policy with the Trump administration. This was not a mere Watergate. It was a civil war being waged within the limited confines of Washington D.C.
The weapons of the national security state were being used to fight a war over who would be able to define national security with intelligence community figures targeting an incoming intelligence community figure. Conflicts that were once conducted with media leaks had gone well beyond them.
But the pattern of media leaks did suggest a link between Obama’s surveillance of members of Congress and the spying on Flynn.
As Smith notes, “Adam Entous was offered the leak of the Dec. 29 call early on”. Entous was also the writer who ‘broke’ the story of Obama’s spying on Congress and pro-Israel activists for the Wall Street Journal while spinning the material in a way that justified this latter-day Watergate. Washington D.C. operatives usually have favored reporters that they leak stories to for the right political spin.
It seems likely that whoever leaked the Congress surveillance story also leaked Flynn’s phone call.
As I noted in 2018, “Spygate was the warped afterbirth of our failure to meaningfully confront Islamic terrorism. Instead, the political allies of the terrorists and the failed watchmen who allowed them to strike so many times, got together to shoot the messengers warning about the terror threat.”
The Obama administration betrayed America. It sold out the soldiers in the field, and then their commanders, and when it lost power, it went to war against the civilian leadership using the tools that had been traditionally reserved for the terrorists that it had refused to take on and defeat.
Obama didn’t just corrupt our national security system to wage war on his successor administration, he did it to protect the Islamist terrorist enemies of this country: Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Instead of fighting Islamic terrorists, Obama used the national security state to spy on their opponents, beginning with pro-Israel Americans, and concluding with Trump allies in a horrifying act of treason.
Jyoti Prakash Mitra says
During the last Presidency, the Democrat Administration was of opinion that nothing can be made against the Islamic terrorists outside their location. Related, radical Islamic Jihadists were active in average 17 places. Americans were spied upon as it was unsure if the then US Government would be able to show a benchmark.
Beverly says
I’ve said this for several yeas, but Obamao looked at the power to spy that he had at his fingertips. Sophisticated agencies who could covertly do what he wanted. There is absolutely no telling who all the spied on. I think they have something on Justice Roberts personally. And speaking of justice, we better get some. There’s a whole crew of people who need to be doing the perp walk in orange jumpsuits.
Jerome Henen says
Right , but if it goes along the Flynn’s has gone expect ZERO justice! People like Lindsey Graham and Barr are just paying lip service to prosecuting anyone. They will not prosecute any democrats and they will not help Flynn who is being treated innan unprecedentedly diabiolical and unjust way!
No Muzzies Here says
Obama used his high office to favor foreign powers that want to eliminate us. It was from ideology, not for personal gain. He sincerely supports those who want to destroy us and Western Civilization in general.
He took no action as Islamic State gained strength. He promoted the Muslim Brotherhood.
It’s hard for most Americans to accept something as cognitively dissonant as the fact that their president actively worked against the interests of the country that foolishly elected him.
GOLDMANN says
??wow !!!! . I am glad l am British!!. And he wears a Muslim ring ! ?? He’s a Muslim . Pretending he’s a Christian.
royfisher65 says
Obama the Muslin doing his soft Jihad…totally agree with you! “The future does not belong to those who sander the Prophet of Islam”….you talking about the robbing murdering false pedophile prophet of Islam? That’s not slander…it is TRUTH!
RichardL says
I lived in Egypt when 0bama gave his Cairo University speech and immediately called him The Destroyer. It was the combination of very low intelligence, his islamic, leftard, and privileged upbringing and his unbounded arrogance that made him so dangerous. Trump needs to do a much better job cleaning house.
Ray Jarman says
Richard L,
I have talked to friends at the American Embassy in Cairo and they told me that things changed dramatically under the Ikhwan and has yet to return to normalcy under Al Sisi. When I visited Egypt in 2005 with my wife and father in law, we were able to visit the entire country and even the huge mosque in Cairo. The tourist police protected foolish tourist from making stupid mistakes and the military secured a convoy of tourists, including my family, from Luxor to Hurghada on the Red Sea. Today, I am told by friends there that even the road trip from Cairo to Alexandra is too dangerous to attempt. I put the death of so many Copts and other Christians at the doorsteps of Hussein Obama by his unwavering support of the Ikhwan led by it terrorist leader, Morsi.
gravenimage says
Thanks for this grim information, Richard and Ray.
Casey92 says
I’m been saying this when Obama first supported the Muslim Brotherhood. Huma Abedin was the connecting dots. She was the linchpin. She knew the players in the Muslim Brotherhood. Obama’s overall goal when this started was not to help Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood, they were paws in his mission to destroy Israel. The point of which the Muslim Brother collapses is how the Iran deal was brought off the back burner and put forth-Plan B. Obama knew the only way to destroy Israel was the Islamic Middle East. The Muslim Brotherhood was his huckleberry. People need to understand that Obama is the worst of creatures, a trader to the people and to the U.S. The problem is that 40% of the progressive left is for destroying Israel.They erroneously believe ( indoctrinated ) that if Israel is out of the way, the Middle East will be better for it. This is why we see pundits on TV pressing for Palestinian State Hood, I learned from Proverbs that If a wise man has an argument with a fool, the fool only rages and laughs, and there is no quiet and the fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing his opinion. The democrats over the years have stacked inside the government and the national security departments with their cronies. Until Republicans can put together a plan to dissect this massive democratic machine in government, and bring justice for and to the republic, they will win, Thank God Donald Trump became president, This election will be the most important election in the history of the “American Experiment”.
underbed cat says
When the King of Saudi Arabia decided in the 50’s or 60’s to invest money for college educations for black minorities in the United States, it was a time of civil unrest by the radical group of the Blk Panthers and the period of the civil rights movement. This decision to fund black minorities was published in the Chicago Tribune, and was very strategic, the author was Vernon Jarrett whose daughter in law would become Obama’s advisor Valerie Jarrett. The Chicago Tribune was always in our home on Sundays, my father would always buy it I recall his image of Vernon Jarrett in black ink at the top left of the column. Later a video was released about a Percy S, who could write a letter to Harvard.for Obama. This connection and story was reported from NYC Channel 1 and that video must have gone viral. A Ny attnorney ,Sutton decided also Obama was a genius and had taken an oath, could be a great potential political figure that launched Obama with his legal degree to Harvard. When a NYC news reporter released this information, in a video he recieved pushback and suddenly was discredited with a domestic arrest, a very curious situation. He was releleased but I do not know how soon that occured. So interesting to see how strategically and with a long time frame, the movement to spread Islam throughout the world, could work so well in America. Now we hear, no police, could this be the signal for sharia law at another time of disruption?
Interesting how much denial was reported with the first hints that Obama had an Islamic background and later openly admitted at speeches to the correct audience at a time of open borders and aid from within and abroad the process started.
Eli says
My concern is how can we can allow the radical traitors in our government, as they promote the Marxist BLM terrorists. The co founder, Patrissed Cullor, started the Global BLM in 2015.
A former terrorist has managed the BLM funds in 2017-2018. Our national security is of concern now that Omar, Tlaib and Pressley are pushing the Breathe Act, to defund the police, the Immigration and Customs agency, end school safety programs, the Defense Program and demilitarize America to leave America defenselesss. I imagine they have some kind of Sharia law scheme or communist stabilization as a plan B. Obama promoted the Marxist BLM as a revolution, to get things done. To respond to your comment, when Obama was in Chicago, there were fake front fundraising. Valerie Jarrett is an Iranian American, if I recall, which also helped with ties in Iran and Muslilms in our goverment offices. The Panthers hacked my computer, when I spoke against Obama. People from Kenya warned Americans they would play the race card. The Marxist BLM uses racism for fundraising and power.
gravenimage says
Good post. Just one point: Valerie Jarrett was indeed born in Iran–but she was born to charitable Americans running a hospital there–her father was a doctor. One can certainly question her politics and her actions–I do–but for what its worth she is actually American.
Jerome Henen says
I agree, but i think it is impossible to dismantle the deep state. It controls govt. even today. It controls the justice dept. It is just too well entrenched. Hence no justice for Trump , no justice for Flynn, no justice for Stone. The traitors who tried to oust Trump illegally ,including BHO and his high ups will never face prosecution.
Rob R (Brit stuck in Britainistan) says
Obama was pure evil.
8 years of impressionable young people being taught his sick, terrorist-loving world view. And many of them will work for the government…. awful.
mortimer says
Obama did by stealth what would be expected of someone who was a stealth jihadist.
Obama’s administration brought Muslim Brotherhood operatives into positions of power in a way no previous government brought foreign agents into the US government.
Just Venting says
Speaking of security issues, I have a few questions, but wonder who could answer them.
1. Isn’t it rather curious that there seems to be no news or updates regarding the death of Mr. Phil Haney?
2. What did Mr. Haney know that needed to be squelched?
3. What happened to Mr. Haney’s “dead man switch”?
Now for my opinions, based not upon any secret treasure trove of info, but merely developed by listening and watching what is done by our fearless (or is it feckless, I get confused sometimes) leaders: The great security cover up regarding both Communist and Islamic based security threats and the spying upon US citizens that attempts to enlighten us has been going on since at least the Clinton administration. Our nationally and internationally focused intel agencies have been politicized and purged of any non-conforming personnel at the mid to upper level ranks. It now appears that the same goes for the military. The Bushes were Clinton and BHO light to make us peasants and serfs feel like something was going in the “right” direction, when it really was not. Trump has now been neutralized.
James Lincoln says
Just Venting,
All good questions regarding Phil Haney.
I have been following the situation very closely, I can find no new information in regards to your three questions. I personally believe that he was murdered due to the people he was about to expose.
Hopefully the truth will come out.
I believe that you are also correct regarding both communist and islamist based security threats to the United States.
And Obama ordered all terrorist training materials to be purged of any reference to islam.
tgusa says
Phil Haney has been un-personed. He was a security threat to the communists and islamists.
I am of the opinion that George the rat and his brood of scumbags set this all in motion. He and they laid the foundation for future abuse.
underbed cat says
Phil Haney knew about Islamic terror, the motivations and sources that has been denied by main stream press. He educated many especially about the purges of information.
jerome henen says
Who is Phil Haney?
tgusa says
DHS whistle blower found dead ahead of plan to expose national security corruption under the obama regime. He supposedly committed suicide on an isolated road by shooting himself in the chest. Who commits suicide by shooting them self in the chest?
jerome henen says
Trump seems to be doing quite well despite all the attacks on him and the unbelievable crises he he facing. Please god he wins in November , otherwise USA is in bigger trouble than ever!
DJ says
Don’t forget Huma running the State dept.
Merri-joy says
Mr Obama et al must be held to account for their “treasonous” behavior!
James Lincoln says
Not likely to happen, Merri-joy…
gravenimage says
Obama Used National Security to Spy on Americans Opposed to Islamic Terrorists
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This does not surprise…
underbed cat says
Chinese surveilence of calls, tracking everything, and the one thing he does not want to happen is a good economy to get traction……so he sends signals. Tight with the tech community so he could appear smart and pocketing the media, and other stars had it’s benefits in my opinion all he had to do is say very little and smile.
Jody Prichard says
Why can’t we take this traitor down!?! Why is our government so afraid of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama? And protecting them. People have been killed! Is our government that dangerous?
Infidel says
I ve been saying this for long. One day posterity will know the true extent of Body Odor:s treachery…..Just like the treachery of many if India’s muslim leaders of the past is coming out of the woodwork.
Paul Mugerwa says
John McCain dropped the ball in 2008 campaign when two of his supporters put the question to him. May be if he had responded with the right answer America would be different today. Check out the link below;
https://youtu.be/jrnRU3oclH4
admtech69 says
And now we have an Islamic invasion in full progress under the flag of BLM.
Rooster says
Like those of us who are free thinkers are surprised? What a shame on America that we allowed a Muslim to be President. As the truth is slowly revealed, America will see how treasonous Hussein Obama was and still is today. He will be held acvountable for his evilness.
OLD GUY says
The picture says it all, Obama is giving us who love America the finger.